Early access (English Wikipedia)

Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Early access" in English language version.

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arstechnica.com

Machkovech, Sam (June 15, 2015). "Xbox Game Preview brings early access to Xbox One, adds free demo options". Ars Technica. Retrieved September 25, 2015.
Orland, Kyle (March 20, 2014). "Valve lets you pay for the beta with Steam 'Early Access' program". Ars Technica. Retrieved March 29, 2014.
Hutchinson, Lee (August 3, 2014). "Star Citizen and the triumphant, record-smashing return of Chris Roberts". Ars Technica. Retrieved March 15, 2020.

doublefine.com

"Double Fine™ - Action Forums". Archived from the original on February 21, 2015. Retrieved February 21, 2015.

escapistmagazine.com

Sterling, Jim (April 11, 2014). "Salt Of The Earth - A Steam Fail Story". The Escapist. Archived from the original on May 31, 2014. Retrieved May 30, 2014.

eurogamer.net

Dane, Patrick (August 29, 2017). "How Ark survived Steam Early Access". Eurogamer. Retrieved August 29, 2017.
Purchase, Robert (January 2, 2014). "DayZ week-one sales rocket past 400,000". Eurogamer. Retrieved January 2, 2014.
Bratt, Chris (May 14, 2015). "'Weird and hard and super awkward': Klei talks Invisible, Inc. and Early Access". Eurogamer. Retrieved June 9, 2017.
Matulef, Jeffrey (November 6, 2013). "Prison Architect rakes in nearly $8 million". Eurogamer. Gamer Network. Retrieved November 6, 2013.
Yin-Poole, Wesley (May 6, 2014). "Valve hauls "scam" Earth: Year 2066 from Steam Early Access". Eurogamer. Retrieved May 30, 2014.
Welsh, Oli (February 10, 2015). "Eurogamer has dropped review scores". Eurogamer. Retrieved February 10, 2015.
Yin-Poole, Wesley (November 21, 2014). "Valve tightens Steam Early Access rules for developers". Eurogamer. Retrieved November 21, 2014.
"Early Access games done right". Eurogamer. February 27, 2015. Retrieved March 13, 2015.

extremetech.com

Plafke, James (December 24, 2013). "Kickstarter and early access games are ruining PC gaming". Extreme Tech. Retrieved January 17, 2014.

forbes.com

Kain, Erik. "The 5 Biggest Problems With 'Sea Of Thieves'". Forbes. Retrieved May 18, 2018.

gamasutra.com

Johnson, Soren (February 6, 2012). "Design success means knowing what to do with feedback". Gamasutra. Retrieved October 16, 2013.
Orland, Kyle (April 6, 2011). "Minecraft Draws Over $33 Million In Revenue From 1.8M Paying Customers". Gamasutra. Retrieved October 16, 2013.
Wawro, Alex (January 28, 2016). "GOG launches its own take on Steam's Early Access service". Gamasutra. Retrieved January 28, 2016.
Nutt, Christian (May 13, 2016). "Itch.io launches Refinery, an early access toolset". Gamasutra. Retrieved December 13, 2016.
Graft, Kris (July 10, 2014). "Q&A: The latest on PlayStation dev relations, with Sony's Adam Boyes". Gamasutra. Retrieved July 11, 2014.
Wawro, Alex (September 22, 2015). "PS4 is getting its first Early Access game next week". Gamasutra. Retrieved September 25, 2015.
Nutt, Christian (May 19, 2016). "Early Access coming to Android via Google Play". Gamasutra. Retrieved May 19, 2016.
Green, Holly (June 24, 2016). "7 successful Early Access games that all developers should study". Gamasutra. Retrieved June 24, 2016.
Kerr, Chris (May 8, 2018). "Early access effort Conan Exiles surpassed 1M sales ahead of launch". Gamasutra. Retrieved May 8, 2018.
Horti, Samuel (August 1, 2018). "How player criticism helped make Dead Cells the game it is today". Gamasutra. Archived from the original on August 1, 2018. Retrieved August 1, 2018.
McAloon, Alissa (December 21, 2017). "Now out of Early Access, Battlegrounds crosses 30M players". Gamasutra. Retrieved December 26, 2017.
Graft, Kris (December 13, 2013). "The 5 trends that defined the game industry in 2013". Gamasutra. Retrieved March 28, 2014.

gamesindustry.biz

Sinclair, Brendan (March 29, 2016). "Shifting from AAA to Early Access". GamesIndustry.biz. Retrieved March 29, 2016.
Williams, Mike (May 24, 2013). "Steam Early Access: From Underdogs to Alpha Dogs". GamesIndustry.biz. Retrieved March 25, 2014.
"Scum sells 1 million units in three weeks of early access". GamesIndustry.biz. September 18, 2018. Retrieved September 18, 2018.
Walker, Patrick (November 14, 2014). "Early Access popularity growing, but only 25% have released as a full game". GamesIndustry.biz. Retrieved February 10, 2015.
Sinclair, Brendan (December 20, 2016). "The pros and cons of Early Access". GamesIndustry.biz. Retrieved December 20, 2016.
Handranh, Matthew (October 9, 2015). "Ark: Survival Evolved hits 2 million sales". GamesIndustry.biz. Retrieved October 9, 2015.

gamespot.com

Makuch, Eddie (August 16, 2016). "Xbox One's Version of Early Access Is Coming to Windows 10 PC". GameSpot. Retrieved August 16, 2016.
Makuch, Eddie (January 26, 2014). "AAA publishers now eyeing Steam Early Access". GameSpot. Retrieved March 29, 2016.
Gurwin, Gabe (September 20, 2020). "Hades Has Sold 1 Million Copies, Nearly One-Third Sold In Last Few Days". GameSpot. Retrieved September 20, 2020.

idg.no

news.idg.no

Ralph, Nate (October 2, 2013). "Betting on betas: Why the early access phenomenon is risky business". Computerworld. Archived from the original on October 16, 2013. Retrieved October 16, 2013.

ign.com

Gilyadov, Alex (July 26, 2017). "Fortnite Hits 500,000 Digital Pre-Orders". IGN. Retrieved July 29, 2017.

indiegamemag.com

Berling, Dale (October 28, 2011). "Alphafunding - The New Trend?". Indie Game Magazine. Archived from the original on May 15, 2013. Retrieved October 16, 2013.

joystiq.com

Prell, S. (August 26, 2014). "Feature: Early Access, as told by the devs that live there". Joystiq. Retrieved August 26, 2014.

kickstarter.com

"Star Citizen". Kickstarter. Retrieved March 15, 2020.

kotaku.com

Hernandez, Patricia. "The Story Behind Unturned, One Of Steam's Newest Top Games". Kotaku. Retrieved January 5, 2017.

steamed.kotaku.com

Grayson, Nathan (October 8, 2015). "I Love When A Steam Early Access Game Gets It Right". Kotaku. Archived from the original on October 10, 2015. Retrieved October 9, 2015.

kotaku.com.au

Walker, Alex (January 5, 2016). "GTA 5 And Fallout 4 Still Ruled Steam In 2015, But Indies Had A Good Run". Kotaku. Retrieved June 24, 2016.

makinggames.biz

Galyonkin, Sergey (August 24, 2015). "HOW TO BE SUCCESSFUL ON STEAM". Making Games. Retrieved September 25, 2015.

pcgamer.com

Chalk, Andy (April 11, 2018). "The Dauntless open beta begins in May". PC Gamer. Retrieved July 11, 2018.
Litchfield, Ted (December 26, 2023). "2023 was the year I got fed up with seeing those 'early access' deluxe editions where you pay more to play the game a few days early". PC Gamer. Retrieved August 30, 2024.
Brimbaum, Ian (December 23, 2013). "Kerbal Space Program dev on random solar systems, the joy of failure and the "cult" of Steam". PC Gamer. Retrieved January 17, 2014.
"Unturned review (Early Access)". PC Gamer. July 17, 2014. Retrieved January 5, 2017.
Savage, Phil (September 22, 2014). "Tim Schafer explains Spacebase DF-9's unexpected v1.0 release". PC Gamer. Retrieved September 22, 2014.

pcgamesn.com

Bensen, Julian (March 20, 2013). "Steam now selling early access to games". PCGamesN. Retrieved October 16, 2013.
Bailey, Dustin (February 12, 2020). "Besiege finally goes 1.0 in February, after five years of Early Access". PCGamesN. Retrieved February 18, 2020.
"After two years, Fortnite is still somehow in early access". PCGamesN. October 15, 2019. Retrieved May 17, 2020.
Boudreau, Ian (June 30, 2018). "Slay the Spire has sold a million copies in Early Access". PCGamesN. Retrieved June 30, 2018.
Arguella, Diego (March 4, 2020). "How streaming revolutionised indies like Hades and Slay the Spire". PCGamesN. Retrieved March 4, 2020.

penny-arcade.com

Kuchera, Ben (January 13, 2013). "How the Humble Store may challenge Steam: the business of helping indie devs sell games". Penny Arcade Reports. Retrieved October 16, 2013.

polygon.com

Tach, Dave (May 19, 2014). "GOG 'looking at' launching a service like Steam Early Access for games in development". Polygon. Retrieved May 30, 2014.
Kuchera, Ben (April 5, 2017). "Mass Effect: Andromeda becomes an early access game after launch". Polygon. Retrieved April 5, 2017.
Goslin, Austen (November 13, 2019). "Early access changed everything about games". Polygon. Retrieved November 13, 2019.
Gies, Arthur (March 3, 2016). "Paragon will be totally free-to-play — but not in early access". Polygon. Archived from the original on April 7, 2016. Retrieved April 11, 2016.
McWhertor, Michael (June 30, 2020). "Fortnite is out of 'early access,' Save the World no longer going free to play". Polygon. Retrieved July 3, 2020.
Hall, Charlie (December 22, 2017). "PUBG creator on the rise of China and the future of Battlegrounds". Polygon. Retrieved December 26, 2017.
"About Early Access Reviews". Polygon. April 22, 2014. Retrieved February 9, 2015.
Kuchera, Ben (January 4, 2014). "Unfinished, unfair and brutally difficult: What developers should steal from DayZ". Polygon. Retrieved January 4, 2014.

rockpapershotgun.com

Smith, Adam (May 4, 2017). "Oxygen Not Included drifts onto Early Access May 18th". Rock Paper Shotgun. Retrieved June 9, 2017.

sfchronicle.com

Li, Roland (January 3, 2021). "How S.F.'s Supergiant made 'Hades,' one of 2020's most acclaimed video games". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved March 25, 2021.

technologyreview.com

"Markus Persson". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved April 17, 2023.

theglobeandmail.com

McCutcheon, Andrew Glen (January 26, 2016). "Darkest Dungeon developers find success in B.C.'s growing gaming industry". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved January 28, 2016.

themittani.com

Scaurus, Mark (October 19, 2012). "Exclusive Interview Star Citizen's Chris Roberts". The Mittani. Archived from the original on February 23, 2017.

theverge.com

Welch, Chris (March 20, 2013). "Steam Early Access lets gamers buy and play titles still in development". The Verge. Retrieved March 25, 2014.
D'Orazio, Dante (January 25, 2015). "DayZ has sold 3 million copies even though it's still in development". The Verge. Retrieved December 13, 2018.

usgamer.net

Bailey, Kat (November 14, 2017). "Opinion: Nominating PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds for Game of the Year is a Terrible Idea". US Gamer. Retrieved November 15, 2017.

venturebeat.com

Minotti, Mike (February 10, 2017). "Conan Exiles hits 320,000 sold after one week on Steam Early Access". Venture Beat. Retrieved February 10, 2017.
Minotti, Mike (September 5, 2017). "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has sold 10 million copies in six months". Venture Beat. Retrieved September 5, 2017.
Grubb, Jeff (June 23, 2017). "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds surpasses $100 million in revenue". Venture Beat. Retrieved June 23, 2017.
Grubb, Jeff (November 14, 2017). "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds and GOTY: It's about art vs. product". Venture Beat. Retrieved November 15, 2017.

vg247.com

Saed, Sharif (September 30, 2016). "No Man's Sky is "unfinished and repetitive" because "math can't always create meaning" says Geoff Keighley". VG247. Retrieved April 5, 2017.
Martin, Matt (June 6, 2017). "Epic's craft-and-loot shooter Fortnite starts paid early access on PS4, PC, Xbox One next month". VG247. Retrieved July 11, 2018.

wccftech.com

De Meo, Francesco (March 29, 2020). "Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord Early Access Release Moved Forward To March 30th". Wccftech. Retrieved March 27, 2020.

web.archive.org

Ralph, Nate (October 2, 2013). "Betting on betas: Why the early access phenomenon is risky business". Computerworld. Archived from the original on October 16, 2013. Retrieved October 16, 2013.
Berling, Dale (October 28, 2011). "Alphafunding - The New Trend?". Indie Game Magazine. Archived from the original on May 15, 2013. Retrieved October 16, 2013.
Gies, Arthur (March 3, 2016). "Paragon will be totally free-to-play — but not in early access". Polygon. Archived from the original on April 7, 2016. Retrieved April 11, 2016.
Scaurus, Mark (October 19, 2012). "Exclusive Interview Star Citizen's Chris Roberts". The Mittani. Archived from the original on February 23, 2017.
Horti, Samuel (August 1, 2018). "How player criticism helped make Dead Cells the game it is today". Gamasutra. Archived from the original on August 1, 2018. Retrieved August 1, 2018.
Sterling, Jim (April 11, 2014). "Salt Of The Earth - A Steam Fail Story". The Escapist. Archived from the original on May 31, 2014. Retrieved May 30, 2014.
"Double Fine™ - Action Forums". Archived from the original on February 21, 2015. Retrieved February 21, 2015.
Grayson, Nathan (October 8, 2015). "I Love When A Steam Early Access Game Gets It Right". Kotaku. Archived from the original on October 10, 2015. Retrieved October 9, 2015.

x.com

JP [@vectorpoem] (November 24, 2014). "Yep, I was one of the 12 people Double Fine laid off on Friday" (Tweet) – via Twitter.